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Art without an Author: Vasari’s Lives and Michelangelo’s Death
No full textMonografia sulla rappresentazione di Michelangelo nelle due edizioni delle Vite, sulla storia del libro e la questione della sua paternitàBook dedicated to the representation of Michelangelo in Vasari's Lives of the Artists, to the history of the book, and to the problem of its authorshi
Howard R. Marraro Prize
No full textPremio come migliore monografia su argomento di storia della cultura italian
Alberti on the Surface
Full text linkThis essay on Alberti’s definition of painting as a surface or plane in the De pictura is part of a larger study on the early modern attention to the “surface” as a privileged locus of knowledge in Renaissance culture. Overall, my aim is not to recuperate a founding narrative of the Italian Renaissance, as much as highlight a fundamental tension between a phenomenological approach to knowledge, in which the material and visual values of the “surface” acquire heuristic primacy, and an ethical conception of knowledge as invisible and hidden, as emphasized by long established hermeneutical traditions, which read “depth” as the metaphorical locus for knowledge, truth, and authenticity. I am also not arguing for the art for art’s sake, or the birth of aesthetics. I claim instead that the attention to the surface produced a dialectical relationship with its moral opposite, which generated continuous attempts to redefine and re-signify the surface. I also suggest that this tension is essential to the development of early modern art practice and theory
Le imprese del drago. Politica, emblematica e scienze naturali alla corte di Gregorio XIII (1572 - 1585)
No full textUn'attribuzione a Donatello del Crocifisso ligneo dei Servi di Padova
No full textAttribuzione a Donatello del Crocifisso di Santa Maria dei Servi di Padova su base documentariaAttribution to Donatello of the wooden Crucifix of Santa Maria dei Servi in Padua (on documentary basis
The Lives without the Medici?
No full textThis essay suggests that when Vasari was in the initial stages of redacting the Vite, he gave little or no importance to the Medici or to works they had commissioned or works in their possession. It also shows that this is consistent with the fact that the Vite, first printed in 1550 in Florence and dedicated to Cosimo I de’ Medici, was actually conceived in Rome at least four years earlier, as Vasari himself says, in an intellectual milieu that was markedly anti-Medicean
Sixteen-century Paduan Annotations to the First Edition of Vasari's Vite (1550)
No full textThe discovery of annotations to a copy of Vasari’s Vite (1550) in the Beinecke Library at Yale University gives us a rare insight into how the book and contemporary art literature were read and how the information they provided circulated in the Veneto. This article traces the origin of the annotations to the circle of artists and amateurs around the painter Domenico Campagnola in Padua. In polemical reaction to the Florentinism of the Vite, the annotations repeat the major anti-Vasarian arguments elaborated by art writers, but also offer new information about Veneto art. There is also a biographical note on Titian, which precedes the publication of the artist’s biography in the second edition of the Vite (1568)
Per la genesi delle Vite: il quaderno di Yale
No full textThis essay presents an unknown document contained in the Vasari papers at the Beinecke Library (Yale University): a seventeenth-century list of artworks located in Florence ordered alphabetically by artist. The paper argues that this 28-page booklet is a rewriting of a lost sixteenth-century document which contained information extracted from the earliest and since lost manuscript of the Vite, which Vasari had completed by the summer of 1547. If this reconstruction is correct, the document suggests that when writing the first version of the Vite Vasari placed less emphasis on sculpture and architecture. It also intimates that at this early stage of the editorial work Vasari had not yet used Albertini’s Memoriale and the Libro di Antonio Billi, his most important written sources
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